Not surprisingly, the point I made here was made earlier by Arnold Kling:

The phrase "tax cuts for the rich" is designed to trigger an idiotarian response. You are supposed to see a conflict between the Communal Sharing of the tax revenue that naturally belongs to all of us and the Authoritarian Ranking of powerful rich people stealing from this communal resource.

I've been reading his blog but I just found his archive of columns which is more accessible to the non-economist.

Check out this one on his history as a Vietnam protestor.